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Extract PDF text to Markdown
Create a lightweight Markdown starting point from selectable PDF text without uploading the file. The exporter adds page headings around extracted text. It does not infer meaningful heading levels, rebuild tables or lists, or include images; plan to clean up structure and reading order yourself.
Extracts selectable text with page headings. Complex tables, reading order, layout and scanned text are not reconstructed.
When this tool helps
- Bring the text of your own PDF into a Markdown note-taking workflow.
- Create a plain-text starting point before manually rebuilding document structure.
Questions and practical limits
Will PDF tables become Markdown tables?
No. The current exporter does not identify table structure or semantic lists and headings. It extracts text with page markers, leaving formatting reconstruction to you.
Why is a scanned PDF's text missing?
Image-only scans contain no selectable text to extract. They require OCR first; the separate OCR workflow needs a configured service and supports English only.